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Books That Built Me: Finn Family Moomintroll and other Moomin books
I was talking with a friend the other day, saying that writing the long sad post about my father had gotten me thinking about how I’ve been oddly shy and reticent about posting about other things here;...
View ArticleBooks That Built Me: the Inferno by Dante Aligheri, the John Ciardi translation
I am the child of two librarians. I grew up in libraries and used bookstores. I don’t remember Mom or Dad ever telling me that I was too young to read a particular title, though I do remember once...
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Books That Built Me: Pogo and other Walt Kelly books
I’ve just spent the last half hour or so entering my recently inherited Pogo collection into LibraryThing. When Dad first started collecting Pogo, he wrote his name in the books. Sometimes, underneath,...
View ArticleBooks That Built Me: Emily of New Moon series by L.M. Montgomery
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a longtime fan of the Anne of Green Gables series, too. (Click the link for Gwenda Bond‘s excellent recent NPR piece about the Anne books.) But not as many people ever seemed to...
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Books That Built Me: archy and mehitabel by Don Marquis
One day when I was home sick from junior high, my mom read to me about Archy, the vers libre poet reincarnated in the body of a cockroach, and his friend Mehitabel the cat, who may or may not be the...
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Books That Built Me: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
I checked out this book, with that cover (other versions of the cover just look wrong), so many times from the library. Like a lot of kids, I was fascinated by ancient Egypt — or rather, by the...
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Books That Built Me: Cat In The Mirror by Mary Stolz
Every so often — the last time was in 2009 — I write about a book that was important to me as a kid and/or teen. Not long ago I was in a used bookstore that, had it not been for the price tags and the...
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